Hospital Billing 2nd Edition by Susan Magovern,Jean Jurek

Exercise 8

Indicate the correct code for FL 15 (Point of Origin for Admission or Visit) in each of the following situations.
a.A patient is admitted to the current facility as an inpatient and is being transferred from an ICF at which she was a resident.______
b.A patient with severe burns is admitted directly from the ER to the burn unit of the same hospital.________
c.A baby was born in the emergency department of the billing hospital.____
d.A battered woman and child are brought to the hospital by two police officers._____
e. A patient is admitted to the facility as a transfer from hospice but is still under a hospice plan of care._____
f. A patient is admitted to the psychiatric distinct part unit of a hospital after having been discharged from the acute short-term care unit of the same hospital, resulting in a separate claim.____
g. A physician at a freestanding clinic refers a patient to the current facility for a series of outpatient diagnostic services.____